Distributed setup in optical networks with flexible grid

Lightpath setup is presented for distributed flexible-grid optical networks. Detailed and aggregated methods to gather frequency slot availability information are proposed. The aggregated method reduces the amount of control plane information without impacting blocking probability.

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